Hard News: The Flashing Question Mark
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Joe, old Macs are beautifully retro. I love the fish tanks and such that people make out of them. They're like old Volkswagons. I never wanted one at the time, and I sure don't want one now, but I still think they look pretty cool.
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Well, I'm glad it moved you to register to post
Nice to be here. Hardly a graceful entrance, but I'm sure there will be more positive (and more serious) posts to come.
but in an American context, I think "ass" is appropriate
Aha, the deliberate Americanism. It takes on a whole new light.
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Oh, for heaven's sake... You're not one of those gits who writes to the Listener about the faulty (ie non British) pronunciation on National Radio, are you?
No, but now that I know how much it annoys you I might start.
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Weta Workshops should get in on that whole steampunk stylee and build PCs.
Sadly, it's crap like The Day The Earth Stood Still (that depressing creature: a very bad film with a very good one inside struggling to get out) that pays the bills. And I'm beginning to wonder if one side effect of the Global Economic Crisis (c) is that there's going to be a lot less money sloshing around FX houses than there used to be.
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Squee! I just picked up a copy of the Michael Rennie original at the WorryWhare got $10!
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My fingers must be drunk this morning. "for $10"
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that depressing creature: a very bad film with a very good one inside struggling to get out) that pays the bills
There's a list of 50 films I want to see (the list, not the bad films).
"Movies that would have been really good if they had had a different writer/producer/director".
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Joe, old Macs are beautifully retro. I love the fish tanks and such that people make out of them. They're like old Volkswagons. I never wanted one at the time, and I sure don't want one now, but I still think they look pretty cool.
There was an episode of Married With Children where the son tells his bimbo sister that he's getting a computer. To which she replies "What colour?" Once the second-generation iMacs appeared the joke was lost.
Shortly after you couldn't find a plain vanilla beige mouse at the Warehouse - they were all fruity and semi-transparent.
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Beige is too recent to be retro. I still have quite a lot of useful beige equipment. Something about it just begs to be smashed up with a baseball bat, though.
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Beige is too recent to be retro. I still have quite a lot of useful beige equipment. Something about it just begs to be smashed up with a baseball bat, though.
Not true, I have a beige clickety Mac Classic keyboard and mouse connected to my Linux box with a ADB->USB converter. Deliciously retro and people in the office know I'm really concentrating when they can hear a lot of CPM (clicketies per minute).
You know, sometimes all these buttons and scroll wheels are just too much for me.
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Surely it's the Mac Classic-ness rather than the beigeness which is retro. And you can never have enough buttons and scroll wheels. I'd hate to play a 1st person shooter with a one button Mac mouse. To me that's McMouse, or even Micky Mouse. One of my Mac-using buddies was amazed that I could play World of Warcraft with one hand and eat a sandwich with the other, without any loss of function (other than the incredible loss of function involved in being a WoW addict, which I have fortunately overcome).
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Coming a bit late to this party, I completely second the OpenDNS rec. Easy to configure, nice and granular (I think the built-in "low" setting would work for most teens), and requires no client software, so it's nice and whizzy.
I use it for my own network, purely to block phishing and adware sites.
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I'm sure there's plenty of truth in such testimonials too, PCs are a pain in the ... date ... to deal with
[writing this on a MacBook]. You see, a big part of that is just MacLore and really isn't true. I've had Vista running on three boxes for 18 months without any problem. The networking was easy, they never crash and are happily virus free. And there some things PCs do much better like simple navigation.
On the other hand, on a personal level, I never use a PC unless I need to go to the various sites that will only run under IE..or to game. Most games run rather better on a Microsoft platform than the Mac equivalent.
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Aha, the deliberateAmericanism. It takes on a whole new light.
Most people who use 'Americanisms' (whatever they are) do so deliberately. It's not like the borg took over our brains and forced us to exclaim 'dude!' at regular intervals.
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It's not like the borg took over our brains and forced us to exclaim 'dude!' at regular intervals.
Dude!
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Speaking entirely for myself, I'm pretty sure I often use Americanisms (and Australianisms) unwittingly. And I'm entirely comfortable with this particular shortcoming.
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Well, yes, that's true: once something becomes part of your speech patterns you use it unwittingly. But I think you make a choice to adopt things for your own ends, at least initially.
I think my own language patterns are a strange hodge-podge of posh NZer, kiwi-bloke-ism, American southern-isms, American-stonerisms, American hiphopisms, some Maori phrases, some French or Cajun phrases, Coronation Street-isms, and random pick-and-go. I imagine most people in NZ have a range of language influences... it's interesting. <strokes chin ponderingly>
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What's in a nutshell why the gitness in defence of the British motherland of language gets my back up. (Besides, it's not as if there's anything approaching a pure, unadultared, "correct" and uniform language in those hallowed isles.)
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"That's", not "what's". Doom-dee-da.
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I think for years now, my written and spoken vocabulary has been strongly influenced by internet culture.
For instance, I routinely say "pwned" now. Which is weird.
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It's not like the borg took over our brains and forced us to exclaim 'dude!' at regular intervals.
No, that wasn't the borg. I think we all know who that was.
For instance, I routinely say "pwned" now. Which is weird.
Dude, you have been SO pwned by the interwebs.
I imagine most people in NZ have a range of language influences... it's interesting
Indeed, and switch backwards and forwards as the occasion demands, which is one of the great beauties of language. I'm about to go down to my mother's, which will involve eliminating net-isms and upping my blokey-Westie ratio.
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Most people who use 'Americanisms' (whatever they are) do so deliberately. It's not like the borg took over our brains and forced us to exclaim 'dude!' at regular intervals.
Or, Gordon Bennett, forced people of my generation to borrow phraseology wholesale from the likes of Minder..
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That bugger Shakespere eh?
Routinely used the ass/arse pronunciation pun for a laugh-
NZ English is an obsession of mine - I now span 6 generations (and have written & recorded material that can go back 2 more.) The word hoards-the 'in' & 'out' usages- which are different from the cants & jargons and regional dialects-the wonderful ongoing interaction between Maori & English, plus the newer incomer languages...wow! Do we have a brew going here!
Nobody except yourself enforces either word useage or pronounciation. Understanding the words is all. But I will pull any of you up (as I expect such a couth crew to pull me up)when an error occurs.
To wit, Giovanni: assonance is actually the close repetition of similar vowel sounds (which differs from basic rhyme.)
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To wit, Giovanni: assonance is actually the close repetition of similar vowel sounds (which differs from basic rhyme.)
In Italian assonance applies to all sounds, not just vowels (when it's consonants sometimes we call it "assonanza consonantica", which is of course itself an assonance!).
That said, mine was merely a quotation from Educating Rita - Tom nabbed it right away.
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"In Italian, assonance applies to all sounds"-
in Maori, assonance isnt really used (except in proverbs possibly - 'Ka wiwi. ka wawa')-our language, like Italian, is very vowel-rich, but much less rich in constants, so vowel replication is kind of a given)
In English, it is a huge & richly useful field for humble poet people (like self.)
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